Wire-stretcher.



PATENTED MAY 15, 1906.

I No. 820,578.

A. A. & W. BL KEMP.

WIRE STRETUHER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 30, 1906.

Q? Inventors Witnesses Attorneys UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR A. KEMP AND WILLIAM B. KEMP, OF GUY MON, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

WIRE-STRETCHER- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application filed January 30, 1906. SerialNo. 298,660.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ARTHUR A. KEMP and WILLIAM, B. KEMP, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Guymon, in the county of Beaver, OklahomaTerritory, have invented a new and useful Wire-Stretcher, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to wire-stretchers, and has for an object toprovide a device of the class embodying new and improved features ofsimplicity, durability, convenience, and efficiency.

A further object of the invention is to provide a wire-stretcherembodying improved means for drawing together and holding broken ends ofwire while a splice is being made.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists inthe combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fullydescribed, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointedout in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in theform, pro portion, size, and minor details may be made without departingfrom the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

While the improved wire-stretcher may be used in any convenientposition, Figure 1 of the drawings may be considered a top plan view,and Fig. 2 a view of the stretcher in side elevation.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in bothfigures of the drawin s.

In its preferred embodiment the improved wire-stretcher forming thesubject-matter of this application comprises a chain of any approvedlength and structure and provided at each end with wire-grips of anyapproved form, but preferably the spear-point grips shown at 11 and 12.Adjacent the grip hooks 13 and 14 are swiveled to the chain by means ofwhich the chain may be secured about a post, as 15.

For cooperation with the chain a lever 16' is provided, having a hook 17swiveled to a yoke 18, pivoted to the lever, as at 19, the oke and hookextending laterally at one side of the lever. At each side of the pivot19 the yokes 20 and 21 are pivoted, as at 22 and 23, to which arerespectively swiveled the hooks 24 and 25, formed to easily andconveniently engage links of the chain.

To stretch a wire to a post, the chain 10 is passed around the post, asin Fig. 1, and the wire drawn as tightly as convenient by hand isengaged by the grip 11. The lever is then applied by engaging the hook17 within any convenient link and the hook 24 in serted in a link at theextreme of its reach. The lever is then moved in the direction indicated by the arrow, which draws the hooks 17 and 24 together andadvances the hook 25. When the lever has been moved as far asconvenient, the hook 25 is inserted in a link and the movement of thelever reversed. This action is repeated until the wire is at the desiredtension, when it maybe secured to the post in the usual manner.

When making a splice of broken ends, the wires are engaged by theopposite grips, as in Fig. 2, and the ends drawn together bymanipulating the lever, as before described. It is often found moreconvenient to remove the lever while securing the wire either to thepost or together, and especially in the latter instance. When,therefore, the chain has been drawn in and the interval between thegrips reduced to give the wire the desired tension, the loop or slack ofthe chain is en'- gaged, as by the hook 14, to prevent a separating ofthe grips and loosening of the wire. When the hook has engaged the loop,the lever may be entirely removed from the chain, so as to offer noobstruction to the convenient manipulation of the severed ends.

Having thus described the invention,what is claimed is 1. Awire-stretcher comprising a chain, grips adjacent the ends of the chain,a detachable lever arranged to draw in the chain to shorten the intervalbetween the grips and means whereby the loop of the chain may be engagedto maintain the grips in such relation after the lever is removed.

2. A wire-stretcher comprising, a chain, gri s adjacent the ends of thechain, a detachab e lever arranged to draw in the chain to shorten theinterval between the grips, a hook adjacent one end adapted to engagethe loop of the chain to maintain the grips in the obtained relationafter the lever is removed.

3. A Wire-stretcher comprising a chain, fence-engaging grips at the endsof the chain,

a lever extending across the chain, means upon the lever for engagingthe chain, said means constituting a fulcrum, and hooks carried by thelever at opposite sides of its fulcrum and adapted to successively enage links of the chain to decrease the interval between the grips.

4. A wire-stretcher comprising a chain, fence-engaging grips at the endsor the chain, a lever extending across the chain, a hook pivoted to andextending from the lever and adapted to engage a chain-link, a hookpivoted to the lever at each side of the first-mentioned hook, saidhooks adapted to successively engage the links of the chain to decreasethe intervals between'the grips.

5. A wire-stretcher comprising a chain, grips adjacent the ends of thechain,a detachable lever, a hook pivoted to and extending laterally fromthe ever and arranged to engage a link, a hook pivoted upon each side ofand extending opposite the first hook and to progressively engage otherlinks to draw in the chain step by step and decrease the intervalbetween the grips and a hook adjacent one end of and to engage the loopof the chain to maintain the grips in the obtained relation when thelever is removed.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have heretoafiixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR A. KEMP. WILLIAM B. KEMP. Witnesses:

B. F. AYoooK, E. W. HIMEs.

